Facebook has deleted a post by President Donald Trump for violating its policy against spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. The post in question featured a link to a Fox News video in which Trump says children are “virtually immune” to the virus. Facebook said Wednesday that the “video includes false claims that a group of […]
Offers Students Training for Innovative and Exciting Career Opportunities in Network Security, Risk Assessment, Medical Device Security and More Touro College will offer a post-bachelor’s certificate in Cybersecurity beginning this
Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency in New York City and surrounding areas on Wednesday and ordered a probe of utility companies a day after Tropical Storm Isaias downed trees, halted commuter trains and knocked out power to more than 700,000 people. With many still in the dark after Tuesday’s storm, Cuomo blasted […]
The Trump administration will press ahead with efforts to extend a United Nations arms embargo on Iran despite widespread opposition to such a move at the world body, Secretary of
The issue of the budget for Yeshivos and Seminaries has been presented to the Chareidi representatives to the Knesset, in particular, Chairman of the Finance Committee Moshe Gafni. Chairman of
The municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo has offered couples assistance in holding their weddings in outdoor venues around the city such as public parks or outdoor cultural centers. The offer comes
When labor pains signaled that Clarissa Muñoz was at last going to be a mom, she jumped in a car and headed two hours down the Texas border into one of the nation’s most dire coronavirus hot spots. She went first to a hospital so desperate for help that nurses recently made 49 phone calls […]
The Health Ministry informed Israel’s hospitals and Kupot Cholim that they can begin hiring new doctors, nurses and other staffers ahead of the winter, as fears grow of the specter of a massive inflow of patients due to the coronavirus and the flu during the winter. “Today, we will start allocating the 2,000 nurses, 400 […]
Joe Biden’s Democratic presidential campaign is reserving $280 million in digital and television ads through the fall, nearly twice the amount President Donald Trump’s team has reserved. The Biden campaign announced in a Wednesday memo it’s reserving $220 million in television airtime and $60 million in digital ads, in contrast to the $147 million the […]
A total of 415,767 Israelis were required to enter quarantine due to exposure to a confirmed coronavirus carrier during the month of July, a Ynet report said. Israelis were informed
New York’s teachers’ unions said a single COVID-19 case in a school should trigger its immediate closure for 14 days as they listed demands Wednesday for reopening this fall. New York State United Teachers and the United Federation of Teachers called for the state policy just as New York is poised to announce initial decisions […]
“I was in high school when my parents lost their lives in a car crash. They had a family full of kids at home, and we lost them forever, just
By: Sandy Eller The collective voices of nonpublic school children in the five boroughs have been amplified, as leaders of Seventh-day Adventist schools join the Committee of NYC Religious and Independent School Officials. The announcement of the Committee’s expansion was made earlier this week by Committee chairman Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, executive vice president of […]
The world’s largest plane, the six-engined Antonov An-225, landed at Ben-Gurion Airport in Israel on Monday afternoon. It arrived from the US carrying US Army Oshkosh trucks to be fitted
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that New York State Police and local law enforcement will be increasing patrols over the next week to crack down on speeding across the
Chicago’s mayor on Wednesday announced that the nation’s third-largest school district will not welcome students back to the classroom, after all, and will instead rely only on remote instruction to start the school year. The city’s decision to abandon its plan to have students attend in-person classes for two days a week once the fall […]
Cori Bush, a onetime homeless woman who led protests following a white police officer’s fatal shooting of a Black 18-year-old in Ferguson, ousted longtime Rep. William Lacy Clay Tuesday in Missouri’s Democratic primary, ending a political dynasty that has spanned more than a half-century. Bush’s victory came in a rematch of 2018, when she failed […]
On Tuesday, eleven days before the 15th anniversary of the disengagement, MKs from the opposition as well as the coalition (Yamina and Likud), filed a bill that would repeal most
New York City Council member Ritchie Torres has defeated 11 other candidates to win a Democratic primary for Congress in the Bronx in a race that was certified six weeks
Hagaon Harav Chaim Kanievsky selected an esrog for Sukkos ahead of Tu B’Av, which falls out on Tuesday night and Wednesday this year, in accordance with his yearly minhag, B’Chadrei
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